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Charlie Blythe

Colin Blythe

Born: 30 May 1879, Deptford, Kent
Died: 8 November 1917, on the Forest Hall to Pimmern military railway line near Passchendaele, Belgium
Major Teams: Kent, England.
Known As: Charlie Blythe
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox


Test Debut: England v Australia at Sydney, 1st Test, 1901/02
Last Test:
England v South Africa at Cape Town, 5th Test, 1909/10

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1904

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   19   31  12   183   27    9.63   0   0    6   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             757.4  231  1863  100  18.63  8-59    9   4  45.4  2.45

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1899 - 1914)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  439  587 137  4443   82*   9.87   0   5  206   0

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling            103580 4788 42099 2503  16.81 10-30  218  71  41.3  2.43

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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A great slow left arm bowler, possessing a classical delivery and looping flight. His action was elegant and smooth, a few strides leading into a perfect upright sideways-on delivery. He pitched the ball up to encourage the drive into a strong off-side field, and with sufficient spin to trap any batsman unwise enough to try and hit against it. He varied his pace well, and was deceptive through the air, with more pace than most batsmen realised until too late. On the uncovered wickets before World War One, he was almost unplayable after rain, or when the pitch started to crumble. He relished the challenge of bowling to hard-hitting batsman, bringing to his art the virtue of considerable imagination - he seemed always to have something more up his sleeve.

He debuted for Kent when 20 years old, and took over 100 wickets in his second season. He bowled little the following year, due to illness, but from 1902 to his final season in 1914 he took more than 10 wickets every year. His best year was 1909, when he took 215 wickets. In 1907 he took more wickets in a day than anyone else in first-class cricket history, following 10-30 (including 7 wickets for 1 run in 36 balls) with 7-18 against Northamptonshire. He toured Australia and South Africa twice, and America once, but in general found bowling overseas less to his taste than in English conditions. His 2509 first-class wickets were taken at an average of 16.8.

He was a fine violinist, and his artistic temperament, as well as his epilepsy did not always react well to the stress of Test matches. He died tragically young, killed in action at Passchendaele, and his memorial stands on the St. Lawrence Ground in Canterbury (DL,2000).

* Last Updated: Monday, 29-Jul-2002 02:00:10 GMT


 
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